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The WPP boss explains bluntly: "Why did I pick Charlotte Beers? She had the attention span of a gnat, but she was fantastic. "

A portal employee joked that, it would be just enough to please two people -- Focus Media and WPP -- in the annual agency meeting in future.

"Capitalism messed up, " the British tycoon Martin Sorrell wrote recently, "or, to be more precise, capitalists did. "

WPP will likely do due diligence on Razorfish this week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tom Doctoroff, director of the north Asia area for WPP Group's JWT ad agency, said the commercial ad is 'a good first step. '

It seems to be working: WPP, an advertising firm that moved to Dublin in 2008, has indicated it will return.

The company spends an estimated $700 million a year on advertising, according to WPP.

WPP is not the only company in Washington that has built up its arsenal in the US lobbying industry.

What has received less attention, however, is how WPP has also grown into a force in US political communications.

With its global reach and profile, has WPP become too huge to be innovative?

Another person familiar with WPP underscores the point.

The WPP Group, a public-relations giant, turned him into a multimillionaire when it bought his consulting firm in 2001.

Through collaboration with Mindshare, one of the WPP'S subsidiary, we provide more professional local media service to our clients.

Sir Martin believes cost controls will help the agency reclaim this lost profitability by the end of the year.

An interesting question is whether an innovator like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg could have flourished at a company like WPP.

'China has become one of the world's true superpowers, ' says Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertising conglomerate WPP PLC.

In other words, Focus Media and WPP have had absolute say in the online advertising field.

Mr Paster contends that WPP does not " hide " the companies it owns - indeed , a list is provided on WPP's corporate website .

The above analyst believes that Focus Media and WPP will eventually establish new rules of the game for online advertising industry.

Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, a leading marketing consulting firm, has confidence in Chinese enterprises' overseas acquisitions.

What may be a more significant lure is the chance to work with large datasets from various marketing studies, largely provided by WPP.

Strategy and creative ads for the campaign have been developed by WPP-owned ad agency Ogilvy &Mather.

now the country accounts for around $1bn of business, and Sorrell describes its government's five-year plan as a "charter for WPP. "

He retains a tight control, but is quick to point out that WPP is an amorphous agglomeration of 12 different companies.

This situation has been changed since Focus and WPP started their rapid acquisitions in the new media advertising agency industry.

Ogilvy, a unit of WPP Group PLC, is the largest communications group by revenue in Asia outside Japan, Mr. Heath said.

Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, said his advertising group's customers would welcome the deal.

However, the existing situation has been completely changed after series of acquisitions done by Jason Jiang and WPP.

Mr Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman-turned-politician, also has other ties to WPP.

The WPP network has even represented both sides of the political fight in Pakistan.

Ogilvy, part of Martin Sorrell's WPP group, has expanded rapidly in Asia in recent years.

The world may have avoided a financial "apocalypse" , as Sir Martin Sorrell put it yesterday.

Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP Group, the world's largest advertising company, calls 2009 a "write-off" for the industry.

WPP, the world's largest marketing services group by revenues and other measures, will update investors on current trading next week.

When Focus Media carries out its crazy acquisitions, there is another big brand advertising agent WPP who has similar power.

In one recent deal, WPP bought a $5m stake in Buddy Media, a company which specialises in advertising on Facebook.

In setting its sights on Capitol Hill, WPP has targeted one of the most promising growth industries in America.

GroupM, the media-buying division of WPP, forecasts a 2. 4% decline in British television advertising in 2006 and a flat market for 2007.

The answers are becoming clear. There are two surprises, says Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, the world's biggest ad agency.

Some of the country's largest firms, such as WPP's JWT, were forced to close once-thriving outposts in markets such as Chicago.

Yet the chief executive of WPP sees little reason to celebrate.

Currently, Focus Media and WPP have taken up 70% of China's online advertising agency market.

WPP had expected a hard 2009, budgeting for a 2% decline in revenues.

Combined, these companies spend around $1. 3 billion on marketing services each year, says WPP.

Microsoft made management presentations about Razorfish to WPP last week, according to the people.

WPP PLC's ad-buying unit GroupM estimates that China's television advertising revenue in 2010 totaled $27. 4 billion.

WPP So Double-Quick, for instance, 247, WPP All these companies are based in New York.

However, through acquiring these two companies, WPP gets hold of over 30% of dealership in China's online advertising market.

GroupM, WPP's media buying group, forecasts worldwide media spending will slip another 1. 4 per cent in 2010.

On Wednesday shares rose 7. 4 per cent to 623p, having declined by more than 25 per cent in the year to date.

TNS, the market researcher owned by WPP, interviewed almost 50, 000 people in 46 countries for its "Digital Life" study.

WPP's GroupM agency said in June it expected global advertising to drop 5. 5 percent in 2009 before a mild recovery in 2010.

Apple's brand value climbed 84 percent in the past year to $153. 3 billion, WPP's Millward Brown unit said.

WPP profit up 39%